Forensic and Legal Cognition
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2025 | Viewed by 164
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social cognition; decision science; anxiety; memory; biases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The understanding of cognition in forensic and legal contexts has enormous implications on the fairness of justice systems. Decision makers (such as forensic analysts, jurors and judges), eyewitnesses and other individuals involved in justice are vulnerable to many different types of psychological biases and errors that can result in miscarriages of justice. In research, different legal actors are often treated separately, despite these actors utilizing similar cognitive processes. For example, police officers, jurors, judges and forensic analysts are likely to use similar decision-making processes. In this Special Issue, we invite you to submit your original work to Behavioral Sciences for our upcoming Special Issue dedicated to Forensic and Legal Cognition. The goal of this Special Issue is to explore interactions between psychological processes and forensic and legal contexts, thereby covering the cognition of a wide range of legal and forensic actors in one issue.
We encourage a commensurately broad range of topics within this interdisciplinary fields. Examples of relevant areas include, but are not limited to, the following: eyewitness memory and testimony; cognitive bias in forensic analysis; juror and/or jury decision making; judge decision making; and cognitive factors in legal and forensic reasoning.
Abstract Deadline: December 22, 2024.
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: January 22, 2025.
Dr. James Munro
Dr. Lee Curley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forensic bias
- decision making
- legal psychology
- cognition
- jurors and juries
- verdict systems
- biases
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: 25 years on from introducing KREATIV in Norway: How do senior detectives view investigations and interviews?
Highlights: The data is still being fully analysed, though the provisional findings no decay in their understanding or endorsement of what are ethical approaches to investigation and interviewing
Keywords: KREATIV; criminal investigation; investigative interviews; police work; decision-making
